On the twenty-second day of the first month of the Gengxu year, on the embankment in the east of Zheyang, Chen Qiu, the Taishou of Nanyang County, accompanied by a subordinate official, inspected the place and observed the people's feelings.

Looking at the endless farmland below and the hard-working farmers, Chen Qiu couldn't help but sigh with emotion: "Zhang Pingzi is honest and doesn't deceive me, his "Nandu Fu", I have read it several times in my spare time, and when I look at it on the spot today, I know that Nandu is really as good as the rumors, worthy of the name." ”

Gong Cao Cen Sheng echoed: "What the lord said is very true, clamping Lu Yuchi, the descendants of Zepi, and the people of Nanyang in the past dynasties have added dredging, so that there is today's scene of thousands of acres of fertile land. ”

The thief Cao Zhangyang listened, but sneered: "How many of these thousands of hectares of fertile land are still in the hands of the common people, and they are not all in the pockets of rich businessmen and gentry. You see that there are countless cultivators down here, and a few of them are cultivating their own fields.

As we passed, the fields were full of ragged, yellow-faced, hungry men, who had apparently been usurped over their fields and reduced to tenant farmers. The rich have a lot of fields, and the poor have no place to stand. Whose world is this world? ”

After hearing this, Chen Qiu frowned and thought for a while, sighed, and said: "Today, the knight's uniform is rampant, and the official is bribed, and if this continues, the society will be in danger. Yu has been in office as Nanyang Taishou for four years, and he has the intention to rectify these powerful giants, and he is subject to restrictions everywhere.

The predecessor of Nanyang was too shou Chengjin, pure heart and jealousy, please Cen Hui as the merit Cao, and Zhang Mu as the thief Cao official, Zhu Fu Jia Zhang Pan and his clan guests more than 200 people, although the party finally fell into the party and died, but the gentleman did not lose, the world is famous, it is really a model for our generation. ”

After Cen Sheng, Zhang Yang and a group of confidants and subordinates heard this, they immediately shouted loudly: "We are willing to die for the Lord." ”

Chen Qiu laughed and said: "If you have a heart, the old saying goes: 'Eat the king's fortune, share worries for the king', the eldest husband was born in heaven and earth, how can he do nothing." ”

At this time, a small official walked up to Chen Qiu and said, "Qiqi Mansion Jun, the head of the five major families in Wancheng is leading a group of businessmen to ask for a meeting. ”

Chen Qiu's face was not safe, and after thinking about it, he finally sighed a little and said: "It's really sad, after the former princes and princes, they have now become a pawn of businessmen." But since they have come here, for the sake of their ancestors' contributions to Sheji, let's go down and see them, just two days after we have been out, it is time to go back to the county. ”

The group walked down the embankment and came to a carriage, and after Chen Qiu got into the carriage, the subordinates called for a meeting.

Everyone was headed by Li Huang, the head of the Li family, and after he stepped forward to salute, someone in the crowd shouted loudly: "I heard that Chen Fujun wants to investigate the situation of slaves and maids in the famous fields and counties of Nanyang, I don't know if the rumors are true?" ”

Chen Qiu frowned, although he had heard that this group of businessmen was rich and arrogant, but through the car window, when he saw the person who spoke, the round figure was wearing gorgeous clothes, even in the face of him, Nanyang Taishou, he also looked domineering, but he thought about how arrogant and domineering he usually was, and a feeling of disgust suddenly rose in his heart, and he didn't bother to pay attention to this group of people at the moment, so he said 'go back to the county', and put down the car curtain.

A subordinate officer hurriedly forked everyone, the vehicle started slowly, and the thief Cao Zhangyang finally got on the horse, and before leaving, he glanced at everyone and snorted coldly: "Arrogance, relying on his own money, even Lord Taishou dares to be contemptuous, what a group of guys who don't know whether to live or die." ”

The merchant who shouted just now shrunk his neck, looked at the cars and horses in the distance, and muttered: "Isn't it great to be too guarded, my uncle Guo Sheng was in the palace and talked to the Zhongchang waiter, and he annoyed me, so he asked my uncle to sue the Son of Heaven and remove him from his post as a guard." ”

"Guo Fatzi, you have miscalculated this time, our relationship with Chen Fujun's father-in-law Cheng Huang in the palace is much bigger than your uncle, be careful to steal chickens and rice." Someone said directly.

Guo Fatzi suddenly sneered and said: "How tall is I when I am too guarded, it turns out that he is also a person who tends to be inflammatory." ”

Li Huang pointed at Guo Fatzi at this time, and said angrily: "What do you know? Guo Fei, you want to die yourself, don't pull us in, you don't want to think about it, Zhang Fan, as a noble relative, how glorious he was, in the end, he didn't keep a word too much, and he killed if he said kill. ”

At this time, someone began to interject: "Nanyang is eight hundred miles away from Luoyang, as long as he Chen Fujun says a word, we are all lambs to be slaughtered." Even if you have a relationship with the heavens, what is the use of people dying. ”

"Yes, this Chen Qiu is not comparable to those straw bales who rely on their relationships and only know how to loot money, I heard that Chen Qiu was too punctual when he was Lingling, killing hundreds of thousands of rebel thieves, and the child cried when he heard it, and Guo Fatzi's more than 200 catties of meat were at most more than one more cut than ordinary people."

The crowd laughed for a while, Guo Fatzi was obviously cowardly, and he didn't dare to say anything hard, so he hurriedly walked up to Li Huang and arched his hand: "Master Li, after you are a nobleman, you are also a distant relative of the Son of Heaven, what do you say to do now, the big guys will listen to you." ”

Li Huang sneered in his heart, this group of businessmen relied on the relationship of eunuchs, forcibly seized and ravaged the people, and anyone who did not join them in the same stream, whether it was the noble family or the official eunuch family, would be suppressed. In the past few years, if it weren't for the strong background of Chen Qiu, who was too guarded and pressed, I don't know what this Nandu would have become. He wished these people would die soon.

Although he thought so in his heart, Li Huang made a sad gesture on his face, and sighed: "Alas, today's plan, catch up first, ease the relationship between each other, and want to carry out the famous field slave and maid in Nanyang County, it is not him Chen Qiu who has the final say, if it really doesn't work, the big guys are looking for a relationship in Luoyang, and transfer this Chen Qiu to other counties to be a guard." ”

Everyone unanimously agreed, got into the car one after another, and the servants of each family drove and chased Chen Qiu's carriage.

Chen Qiu didn't really want to fall out with this group of businessmen, these people are like weeds, get rid of a stubble this year, and a new one will soon grow next year, the former Taishou Chengjin is an example, desperate to kill these people, but in less than half a year, a new group of businessmen emerged to act as eunuch minions.

What Chen Qiu wanted was to eradicate these eunuchs from the root and do it once and for all. So when I heard Zhang Yang tell me that this group of people was catching up, I let them follow.

Chen Qiu simply ate a few mouthfuls of dry food in the carriage, and kept thinking about things, followed by a long line of convoys, pedestrians on the road automatically avoided it, and walked more than 20 miles like this, when suddenly a tempting fragrance came, causing Chen Qiu's stomach to growl, and at this time he didn't have the heart to think about things, so he opened the curtain and asked, "Where is this, why is it so fragrant?" ”

Cen Sheng stepped forward and replied: "This place is Fuwangli, where Wancheng belongs, and the fragrance is coming from the inside, so I will wait for my subordinates to go and check it out." ”